The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-28


book keeper in Chicago, and younger brother
is type-setter in Washington.
THE girls are making dresses for
The coming first of May.
In which to catch bronchitis or
What's worse, pneumonia.
Boston Courier.
MISS HUXLEY, the daughter of the English
scientist, is receiving much attention in Boston,
where she is sojourning with Mr. and Mrs
Henschel, with whom she came over from
England.
A CHURCH in Franklin, Conn, has found a
way do avoid making a bulletin board of the
pulpit AT cost of only 81 week the notices
are printed and handed to the congregation as
they pass out.
ONLY girl who has run typewriter at 81
per week and finally married her employer can
enter dry goods store and paralyze lady
clerk receiving Sc per week. It's no use for
millionaires wife to try it.
THE Judge: Rector with tremendous force)-
Do you ask me to believe that even after this
shameful treatment Jacob was put out? Sport
loving Deacon waking up suddenly)-Yes he
was and Kelly never'd reached second if--{and
the organ played SOFTLY
LAWRENCE Citizen: "What is the church fort"
asks religious weekly. WE'LL well! If our
sacred contemporary does not know what the
church is for we think it is about time for a re-
vival of religion in its town. The church is to
save the ministers the expense of hiring hall.
Z HARPER's Bazaar: Laura-Papa, isn't my new
dress just too lovely for anythingl Papa-Yes,
dear. Was the goods very expensive? Laura
Why, no, papa. l delighted over the colors
ard perfect fit What makes you think the
material was expensive2 Papa-Because you
bought so little of 1t.
A PRETTY novelty in Washington entertain
ments will be introduced by Mrs. Whitney in
Nav VIII mill ho11
noon receptions in the farm homo at Grass
lands" to which the callers will drive out, ana
have strawt erries and cream served in the wide
rooms OF the hospitable farm house
JUST before the battle of Chickamauga DR..
Palmer, OF New Orleans, was preaching a fast
day sermon to congregation within range of
the Union guns. While he was praying a fed
eral she'll came whizzing and crashing right be-
side the church, but he never showed the slight
est agitation, or curtailed syllable of his
prayer. When he opened his eyes, half his con-
gregation had vanished. 49,
GEN CHAs. J. PAINE the famous yachtsm an,
is a lineal descendant of Robert Treat Paine.
one OF the signers Of the Declaration of hide
pence General Paine enlisted in the volunteer
service when the civil war broke out and had
long and distinguished military career, His
early yachting education was obtained in the
waters about Boston harbor. He owns a hand
some summer residence at Nahant.
| GOOD story is told of Loewe, the great
ballad composer, who, by the way, wrote other
things besides ballads he was about as self
confident man as ever Sc. pen to paper; his
| faith in his own powers was boundless One
evening. during performance of Mendessnon's
"EliJah," which he heard then for the first time
he turned to his wife after the Thanks be to
God" chorus, and said simply, Julia. remind me
tomorrow morning to write oratorio"
AcHMED BEN AMAR, the Algerian lion -slay err
has reached the goal of his ambition, having
| killed more than two hundred lions. in return
| for which he has received the order of the
| Legion of Honor The price paid by the gov
eminent for each lion is 100 francs. 1t IS
estimated that lion kills every year cattle
worth $1,000, and as each lion slain by Amar
| might have lived ten years longer it is etimated
| that he saved his countrymen several million
dollars
= The light that was lit in the cathedral at ST
Augustine, Fla. in 1893, burned without inter-
ruption up to the FIRE of afew nights since Invent
! out when the roof fell 10, and the chime bells.
one of them more than three hundred years old,
! came crashing down. Into ruin went also the
picture representing the first mass said at ST.
Augustine the series representing events in the
| life of Christ, and host of rare and curious
relics. St Augustine has lost its greatest local
/ attraction.
DIR. AMANDABAI JosHEE, the high-caste Brah-
min woman who was graduated from the
Woman's Medical College, at Philadelphia, last
spring, has died at Poona, Hindustan. She de-
1 fed the rules Of caste in coming to this country
| to obtain a thorough medical education. She
4 was not yet nineteen years old when she entered
the college in 1883, and she devoted herself to
study. and after her graduation to hospital
| practice in Boston, that her system broke down
| under the strain.
Mr.. RUsKIN doesn't like bicycles. 'Tnot only
object" he says, 'but am quite prepared to
spend ali my best bad language in reprobation
of bi-tri-and-4 Sc or 7-cycles, and every other
continuance or invention for superseding huma an
feet on Gods ground. To walk. to run, to leap,
| and to dance are the virtues of the human bodv
and neither to stride stilts, wreele on wheels,
or dangle on ropes, and nothing in the training
of the human mind with the body will ever su-
persede the appointed Gods ways Of slow walking
and hard working"
IT is said that when Alexander Mitchell was
banker in Milwaukee there was once run on
his bank. On the second day of the run an old
Scotehman entered the bank. covered with mud,
and carrying pair of saddlebags. He could
not gain access to Mr. Mitchell on account Of
the crowd but be shouted out to him. holding
up the saddlebags: "Aleck, mon. I heard ye bod
room on yer bank. and l bring We all / have
mon-$2. 900 in gold" The crowd contemplated
the old Scotchman for a moment and then be-
gan to drop ont Of the line, and in less than an
hour the run had ceased.
Mr.. LABoUcHERE relates this story of Bishop
Wilberforce, which has not before, he thinks
been printed. The Bishop was riding in one Of
the old-fashioned, broad-gauge railway car
riages, and was seated at one end of it, when BIZ
heard truculent voice at the other end ex
claim: II would dearly like to meet the Bishop
of Oxford. l will be bound l would puzzle
him" Very WE'LL" replied the Bishop to the
speaker. who had not perceived him, ''now i.
your time. for am that person" The man wa.
rather taken aback, but, quickly recovering
said well. my lord. can you tell plain mar
plain way to get to Heaven Certainly
replied the Bishop. nothing is more easy. Yo,
have only to turn at once to the right, and g
straight forward
CnMNENT Am npINJON